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A tea house for loose-leaf tea

Taste it at the table, then take home what you like by the gram. Sixty teas from small gardens, brewed properly, in a quiet room on Willow Lane (sample).

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See the teas

On the tasting table today

Free to taste with any tea by weight, 11:00–18:00 (sample)

Silver needle

Fuding, China

80°C, 4 min

Sencha

Shizuoka, Japan

75°C, 1 min

Iron goddess

Anxi, China

90°C, 2 min

Rock oolong

Wuyi, China

95°C, 1 min

Assam second flush

Assam, India

95°C, 3 min

Ripe pu-erh

Yunnan, China

100°C, 30 s

Palest first, darkest last: the further the leaf was oxidised, the darker the cup. Water temperature and steeping time under each cup.

The tea shelf

A few teas from each part of the shelf. Every tea is sold by the gram, in a paper bag or your own tin; the price is per 50 g.

Silver needle

Fuding, China. Spring 2026 (sample)

Downy buds, honeydew and hay. Gentle; hard to over-brew.

50 g $14

100 g $26

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Sencha

Shizuoka, Japan. First flush (sample)

Steamed, grassy and sweet with a sea-air finish. Keep the water cool.

50 g $11

100 g $20

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Iron goddess

Anxi, China

Rolled leaves that open slowly; orchid, butter and cream.

50 g $12

100 g $22

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Rock oolong

Wuyi, China

Charcoal-roasted; dark cherry, stone and toasted bread.

50 g $14

100 g $26

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Assam second flush

Assam, India

Malty and brisk; takes milk well. Our breakfast tea.

50 g $7

100 g $12

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Ripe pu-erh

Yunnan, China

Earthy, smooth and dark; forest floor and dates. Brews many times.

50 g $8

100 g $14

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Example prices. Harvests change through the year.

The whole shelf

How to brew loose-leaf tea

No special kit needed: a pot, a scale and a kettle you can let cool. Start with these numbers and adjust to your taste.

1

Warm the pot

Swirl a little hot water in the pot and the cups, then pour it away. Cold porcelain takes the heat out of the first steep.

2

Weigh the leaf

Three grams for a 200 ml pot is a good start. A spoon of rolled oolong weighs twice as much as a spoon of white tea.

3

Cool the water

Boil fresh water, then let it rest: about two minutes for 90°C, five for 75°C.

4

Steep and taste

Use a timer. Taste a few seconds early; you can always steep longer, never shorter.

5

Pour it all off

Empty the pot into the cups so the leaf stops brewing. Good leaf gives a second and third pot.

The brewing card

Tea

Leaf

Water

Steep

Pots

White

4 g

80°C

4 min

3

Green

3 g

75°C

1 min

3

Light oolong

5 g

90°C

2 min

5

Roasted oolong

5 g

95°C

1 min

5

Black

3 g

95°C

3 min

2

Ripe pu-erh

5 g

100°C

30 s

8

For a 200 ml pot. Pots: how many times the same leaf can be steeped.

A bowl of green tea and a slice of matcha roll cake on a wooden table by a window

Sit down for a pot

Twenty-four seats, no music, and every tea on the shelf can be brewed for you at the table.

Pot of tea for one

Any tea from the shelf, refilled with hot water as often as you like

$6

Pot of tea for two

$10

Gongfu tray for two

Oolong or pu-erh, small pot, about 45 minutes

$18

Matcha, whisked at the counter

$5.50

Cake of the day

From the bakery next door

$4.50

Example prices.

Tea room menu

Tastings and classes

Small groups around one table. Book a place online or ask at the counter; tea to take home is 10% off on the day (sample).

Saturdays, 10:00

Cupping morning

Six teas side by side, tasted the way buyers do. 60 minutes, up to 8 people, $12 (example prices).

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Thursdays, 18:30

Gongfu session

Small pot, short steeps, many rounds. Learn to brew oolong and pu-erh at home. 90 minutes, $25.

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Last Sunday, 16:00

Tea and food pairing

Five teas with five small plates from the bakery next door. 2 hours, $35.

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Every open day

The tasting table

Six teas of the day, free to taste with any tea by weight. No booking.

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Where our tea comes from

We buy from a handful of gardens we know by name, taste every lot before it reaches the shelf and buy again only when the new harvest is as good.

Shizuoka, Japan

Sencha from a family farm that steams its leaf the same morning it is picked.

Anxi and Wuyi, China

Oolongs from two cooperatives; the rock oolong is roasted over charcoal in autumn.

Darjeeling, India

First and second flush from one estate, bought by the lot after tasting samples.

Yunnan, China

Raw and ripe pu-erh pressed into cakes by a small factory we have visited twice.

How we buy tea
Rows of tea bushes curving over a green hillside
Tall glass jars of loose-leaf tea lined up on a wooden counter

Gift tins and tasting sets

Packed at the counter while you wait, with a brewing card for every tea in the box.

Tasting set, six teas of 10 g

$24

Tin with 100 g of one tea

From $16

Gongfu starter: pot, two cups, 50 g oolong

$58

Example prices.

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Tea notes

All tea notes

Visit the tea house

Willow Lane Tea House (sample)
12 Willow Lane, Springfield

Monday

Closed

Tuesday to Friday

10:00–19:00

Saturday

9:00–19:00

Sunday

11:00–17:00

Tasting table

From 11:00, every open day

Opening times (sample).

Get directions
Map of the streets around Willow Lane, with the tea house marked
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